Just Eat Your Sandwich
When I was in college, I used to do my best to memorize a Bible verse every week and then apply it to my life. One of the verses I have never forgotten is Exodus 14:14, which says, “The Lord will fight for you; you need only to hold your peace.” When you are struggling through premed classes at a very prestigious and predominantly white institution as a young Black woman, you really need God to fight those battles for you. But the part of that verse that always made me pause was the second half: hold your peace. What does that even mean? We all know that peace is not something tangible or easy to access. Yet God tells us to hold it . I think that’s exactly why it’s included in the Bible. God knew this would be something many of us would struggle with, because it’s not something we can physically hold to ground us. And yet, somehow, if we do hold it, it grounds us anyway. Imagine you are on the front line of a very intense battle. I’m talking about cannons going off—spears, bullet...